'Fake news': Kazakhstan shuns China's warning about 'unknown pneumonia' worse than COVID

Kazakhstan's Ministry of Healthcare on July 10 officially dismissed a report of Chinese Embassy about an 'unkwn pneumonia' spreing in Central Asian country as incorrect. " Ministry of Healthcare of Republic of Kazakhstan emphasizes that reports of Chinese media is t consistent with relity', said a press release by health ministry of Kazakhstan on Friday.

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"It is important to te that WHO introduced pneumonia codes into International Classification of Diseases - ICD 10, in cases when COVID-19 is diagsed clinically or epidemiologically, for example with 'ground-glass' opacities in affected lungs, but is t laboratory-confirmed. In this regard, Kazakhstan, like or countries of world, keeps records and monitoring of this kind of pneumonia, in order to make timely manrial decisions aimed at stabilizing incidence and prevalence of COVID-19," release ded furr.

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Chinese embassy warns citizens

Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan posted a tice on July 9 warning its citizens in country about a new 'unkwn pneumonia', possibly more lethal than COVID-19. Chinese Embassy in its tice claimed that death rate of new disease was much higher than that of coronavirus. embassy said that Kazakhstan's health ministry is yet to identify virus that has reportedly claimed more than 1,700 lives in central Asian country. It furr ded that health ministry of former Soviet-Union is conducting research on virus. 

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Chinese Embassy in Kazakhstan cited local media reports and claimed that unkwn pneumonia cases are being reported in provinces of Atyrau and Aktobe and city of Shymkent. embassy tice claimed that cases have seen a significant surge since mid-June and three places have reported over 500 cases so far. embassy in its tice furr said that some Chinese nationals have also been infected and died by unkwn pneumonia. 

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